U utah phillips biography
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Collection Spotlight: The Utah Phillips Papers
Bruce Duncan “Utah” Phillips () was one of the most prominent members of the American människor community in the latter half of the 20th century. He became well known as a folk singer, storyteller, poet, radio host, and activist beginning in the late s and continued to be a distinguished figure in the folk and labor communities for the following kvartet decades. The Walter P. Reuther Library, the repository for the Utah Phillips Papers, is pleased to announce that the collection is now open for research.
Utah Phillips was born in Cleveland, Ohio on May 15, to a labor organizer father and a mother with radical politics. His family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah in the late s, during which time Utah learned to play the ukulele. He learned to play the guitar and slipad his songwriting skills while working at Yellowstone in the early s, and further developed as a musician while serving in the United States Army in the Korean War. Utah’s experien
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U. Utah Phillips: Folk singer-songwriter
U. Utah Phillips was a folk singer, songwriter and political activist, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, the radical trade union movement popularly known as the Wobblies. Building on the legacy of Woody Guthrie, he sang about the hobo and the homeless, railway workers and mining communities, cattle drover and busking musician, organised labour and the trade union movement.
The finest of his songs include "Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia", "Goodnight Loving Trail", "Starlight on the Rails", "Orphan Train", "Miner's Lullaby" and "Moose Turd Pie". His songs have been recorded by Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Joe Ely, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings and Ani diFranco. He collaborated with diFranco in the s; their second skiva, Fellow Workers (), received a Grammy nomination.
He was born Bruce Phillips in in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of trade union activists who later moved to Utah. (He later called han själv U. Utah Phillips, in trib
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Utah Phillips
American labor organizer, folk singer, and poet (–)
Musical artist
Bruce Duncan "Utah" Phillips (May 15, &#;– May 23, )[1] was an American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet. He described the struggles of labor unions and the power of direct action, self-identifying as an anarchist.[2] He often promoted the Industrial Workers of the World in his music, actions, and words.
Early years
[edit]Phillips was born in Cleveland to Edwin Deroger Phillips and Frances Kathleen Coates. His father, Edwin Phillips, was a labor organizer, and his parents' activism influenced much of his life's work. Phillips was a card-carrying member of the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies), which were headquartered in Chicago. His parents divorced and his mother remarried. Phillips was adopted at the age of five by his stepfather, Syd Cohen, who managed the Hippodrome Theater in Cleveland, one of the last vaudeville houses in the city. Co